Aftermath of the Last Great Time War: Difference between revisions

As the Time War did not exist in a linear sense, after what most considered the end with the Doctor relocating Gallifrey to a different universe and wiping out the Daleks, some events still occurred which were described by the Doctor or others as part of the conflict. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', et. al)

Although many incarnations of the Doctor saved Gallifrey, due to the timelines being out of sync, the first eleven would forget this act. This caused the Doctor to reject his war incarnation until the memories of saving Gallifrey caught up with the Eleventh Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') After regenerating from his war incarnation, the Ninth Doctor was left with the belief that he had in fact activated the Moment, so, to deal with his guilt, he returned to his mission of helping people in need throughout the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') His repentance was indeed sincere, as he brought love and help to wherever the TARDIS brought him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')

The Tenth Doctor, as well, believed Gallifrey had been destroyed after he returned to his place in the timeline after its salvation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') He remembered Gallifrey's fall as a legitimate destruction, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'') though his memory was similar to the Eighth Doctor's attempted aversion of the [[War in Heaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]], [[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'') [[Book (The Whoniverse)|A historical account]] stated he lived hundreds of years before he learned he was not the last Time Lord. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') The knowledge of Gallifrey's survival brought joy to the Eleventh Doctor, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') but the horrors of the Time War were still burned into the Doctor's mind; the [[Twelfth Doctor]] once remarked that he heard "more screams than anyone could ever be able to count" every time he shut his eyes and that the War taught him "no one else" deserved to live through the pain of war. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Zygon Inversion (TV story)|The Zygon Inversion]]'')

By [[2009]], the [[Sontaran]] [[General]] [[Staal]] heard of legends which told of the [[War Doctor]] leading battles in the Time War, bitterly noting that the Sontarans were forbidden from participating in the conflict. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') [[Andrea Quill]], a [[Quill (species)|Quill]], was aware of the Time War, and that [[Shoreditch Incident|the destruction]] of the [[Imperial Dalek]] fleet at the hands of the [[Seventh Doctor]] contributed to it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') However, [[Time Agent]] Jack Harkness, a native of the [[51st century]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TV story)|Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang]]'') at first believed the Time War to be a legend before learning the truth from the Doctor. He was, however, aware that the [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek ships]] were meant to have been all destroyed by [[200,100]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')

The [[Twelfth Doctor]] once said that, even though it was over, the Time War could still kill someone due to that being the nature of a [[temporal paradox]]. However, he then claimed people should not worry and forget that warning, stating it would never happen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dangerous Book of Monsters (novel)| The Dangerous Book of Monsters]]'') It was possible for individuals from the [[post-Time War universe]] to encounter combatants for whom the War was still going, as was the case when [[River Song]] and [[Kate Stewart]]'s [[UNIT]] had encounters with {{Jacobi}}. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Concealed Weapon (audio story)|Concealed Weapon]]'', ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'') River also met the [[Eighth Doctor]] whilst he was in the midst of the conflict on two occasions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rulers of the Universe (audio story)|The Rulers of the Universe]]'', ''[[Lies in Ruins (audio story)|Lies in Ruins]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]]'s TARDIS was once pulled back into the conflict's [[time lock]] by a telepathic summons from {{Jacobi}} and he had to rapidly depart to prevent himself becoming trapped there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Line (audio story)|The Last Line]]'') In an [[alternate timeline (Masterful)|aborted timeline]], the [[Saxon Master]] was able to use a [[Time Scoop]] to collect his previous incarnation whilst he was fighting the Time War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masterful (audio story)|Masterful]]'')

The disappearance of the Time Lords created a vacuum that may have left history more vulnerable to change. The [[Ninth Doctor]] explained to [[Rose Tyler]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') the [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] to [[Donna Noble]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') and the [[Eleventh Doctor|Eleventh]] to [[Clara Oswald]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'') that time was in flux and history could change instantly. One demonstration of this was when Rose created a [[temporal paradox]] by saving her father, [[Peter Tyler|Pete]], just before his death in a traffic accident. This summoned the [[Reaper]]s, who descended to sterilise the "wound" in time by devouring everything in sight. The Ninth Doctor said that if the Time Lords had been still around, they could have held back the Reapers and prevented or repaired the paradox. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'')

According to the Tenth Doctor, certain areas like the [[Null Zone]] became "tricky" places for time travel. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') As well, the Tenth Doctor noted that when the Time Lords were around, travel between [[Parallel universe|parallel worlds]] was far less difficult. With their disappearance, the barriers between worlds closed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') With a sudden power vacuum without the Daleks and Time Lords in the universe, many of the races that had suffered during the War wanted to exploit the vacuum, managing to rise to prominence with only the Doctor left to keep them in line. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') The end of the fighting also created a power vacuum specific to the [[Stellian Galaxy]], which was consumed by centuries of war. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fugitive (comic story)|Fugitive]]'')

As a result of the Time War, [[paradox eater]]s such as Reapers, [[Chronovore]]s and [[Gramoryan]]s ran wild. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (audio story)|Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated]]'') The [[Discordia]] discovered [[time travel]] technology on their [[Discordia Prime|home planet]] and began to spread chaos throughout time, with no one left to oppose them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time in a Bottle (audio story)|Time in a Bottle]]'') Many [[Utopia window]]s were spread across the [[cosmos]] as [[flotsam and jetsam]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[I Was Churchill's Double (audio story)|I Was Churchill's Double]]'')

The "chronological complications" brought about by the War and Gallifrey's apparent destruction resulted in Gallifrey and other artefacts native to its home universe landing within the universe of [[New Eden (The Interstellar Convergence)|New Eden]] for a brief time. [[Capsuleer|Inhabitants of]] New Eden's universe followed these artifacts on a path that brought them into conflict with Daleks, who had also arrived within New Eden. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Interstellar Convergence (video game)|The Interstellar Convergence]]'') From his [[bubble universe]], [[House (The Doctor's Wife)|House]] had lured many TARDISes in order to feed on them, killing Time Lords such as the [[Ninth Corsair]] in the process. After some time without new arrivals, House lured the Eleventh Doctor, who identified himself as the last Time Lord with the last TARDIS, to his universe, where [[the TARDIS]] resisted his attempt to consume her. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'')

After the War’s conclusion, it was sometimes still possible for time travellers to arrive in the universe as it had been prior to the Time War's outbreak. On two occasions, the [[Tenth Doctor]] found himself in the [[pre-Time War universe]]. Once when his TARDIS jumped a [[time track]], resulting in it arriving in the midst of pre-Time War era [[Second Dalek War]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'') and again as an accidental side effect of the temporal catastrophe caused by [[the Nun]]’s meddling with [[George Sheldrake]]'s [[time tunnel]]s, which required the Tenth Doctor to abduct his own past self to rectify. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Woman (audio story)|The Wrong Woman]]'')  

[[River Song]] became embroiled in the pre-Time War timeline during her involvement with the [[Doom Coalition]], even visiting [[Gallifrey]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Songs of Love (audio story)|Songs of Love]]'') Whilst a captive of [[the Nine]] after helping the [[Eighth Doctor]] foiling the Coalition, she was forced to help him kidnap the Doctor’s companions. She suggested [[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss]] as a candidate for capture, however upon her capture Bliss proved to have no experience with the Doctor as in the pre-Time War era her timeline had yet to be altered such that she met the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]'')

At the cost of his sanity, Caan broke through the Time War's [[time lock]] to save [[Davros]] from dying at the jaws of the [[Nightmare Child]] in its first year, bringing Davros into the post-conflict universe. Using his own [[DNA]], Davros created the [[New Dalek Empire]], which was overseen by a [[Supreme Dalek (The Stolen Earth)|new Supreme Dalek]] and based out of the ''[[Crucible]]'' in the [[Medusa Cascade]]. Davros then created the [[reality bomb]], a superweapon the Daleks could use to destroy the entire [[omniverse]], which needed to be powered by 27 specific planets, including the Earth. Caan, now able to see the flow of time thanks to breaking into the War, claimed that the Dalek plan would succeed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') Learning of these events—which they considered the Daleks' most diabolical plan yet—through the matrix projections, the Time War-era Time Lords were concerned that Davros was once again working with his creations, yet they were alarmed even more by how a single bronze Dalek, even if it had enhanced mental capacity, was able to break through a time lock. The Time Lords began to investigate the matter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

After the Time War, with the annihilation of the Dalek Empire and supposed annihilation of Gallifrey, the Daleks and Time Lords had become myths to the rest of the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') However, the Paradigm eventually restored the Daleks to a full empire that was known and feared by the citizens of the universe, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek]]'', et. al) although the Daleks had yet to rise to the same numbers they held during the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') The original five Paradigm Daleks had first used the facilities on the planet [[Goth]] to build up their new army of [[Drone Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|red Drone Daleks]], but the five founders, due to the Time War significantly changing history, had little chance at verifying the [[Pathweb|Dalek Pathweb's]] information on the Time War. Nonetheless, they chose to focus upon what was clear, which included taking advantage of the absence of the Time Lords. In fact, the Daleks decided they had effectively won the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')

As the now-Parliament commanded Dalek Empire expanded, [[Oswin Oswald]], a human who had been converted into a Dalek and also a temporal splinter of [[Clara Oswald]], [[Asylum Incident|erased]] all knowledge of the Doctor from the [[Pathweb|Dalek Pathweb]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') an act that crippled the Dalek war effort for centuries as the Parliament, until the knowledge of their foe was restored during the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], was left to debate as to who their forgotten arch-nemesis had been. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') The Matrix's projection of this event confirmed to the Time Lords that the Pathweb, which was ever elusive to them, could indeed be hacked, and so they devoted additional resources to this means of attack. They also learnt from Oswin's experience that not all Dalek conversions were successful, understanding that the discovery of even one drone that was not totally subservient to Dalek control would give Gallifrey a massive tactical advantage. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

The Time Lords saw the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]'s encounters with the [[Reconnaissance Dalek]], who was initially [[Battle of Hope Valley|defeated]] upon arriving on Earth in the [[9th century]], [[Recon Scout Incident|reconstructed]] itself in the [[21st century]] and ultimately [[2021 Dalek civil war|created]] a "[[Defence Drone|new strain]]" of Dalek. Realising that the [[reconnaissance scout]]s boasted considerably more abilities than standard Dalek drones, the Time Lords were amazed that primitive humans were able to defeat such a Dalek but were nonetheless wary of encountering one in wartime. It also came to their concern that the Dalek was able to create a new army without the advanced skills of the [[Cult of Skaro]], [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|the Emperor]] or Davros, and so research was undertaken into the genetic make-up of Reconnaissance Daleks to further understand the extent of their abilities. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

The Doctor succeeded in saving the universe from the Flux, though not before it destroyed the assembled [[Dalek War Fleet]] as well as the [[Cyber-Fleet]] and the Sontaran [[fleet]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vanquishers (TV story)|The Vanquishers]]'') with [[Dalek Command]] holding the Doctor responsible for their losses. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eve of the Daleks (TV story)|Eve of the Daleks]]'') Recognising their [[hatred]] for her, the Master gained the allegiance of the Daleks and the Cybermen in a [[The Master's Dalek Plan|plot]] to eliminate the Doctor and seize the Earth, with the Daleks now being aware of the Master's ransacking of Gallifrey. This was thwarted by the Doctor, though the confrontation led to both her and the Master being gravely wounded, with the former regenerating into the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'')